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Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.

Dallas Willard

The different parts of the automobile like the ignition switch, the various buttons, the steering wheel – the interfaces between the driver and the machine – is our spirit or heart.
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Different Driver Heart Ignition Machine Ourselves Spirit
Make disciples. Surround them in the reality of the Trinity in a fellowship of disciples. Teach them to do everything Jesus says.
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Anand Thakur
Belief is when your whole being is set to act as if something is so.
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Act Belief Yourself
Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It’s like education. Everyone gets an education; it’s just a matter of which one you get.
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Education Form Oneself Spiritual
You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don’t think him competent.
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Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.
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Anand Thakur
We have churches full of people who profess all kinds of stuff that they don’t believe. They think that by professing it they’re doing something good. Really, they’re just deluding themselves.
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Goodness Kind People Thinking
What a child does when not told what to do is the final indicator of what and who that child is.
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Character Children Final
Understanding is the basis of care. What you would take care of you must first understand, whether it be a petunia or a nation.
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Basis Care Nation Understand
Spiritual formation for the Christian basically refers to the Spirit-driven process of forming the inner world of the human self in such a way that it becomes like the inner being of Christ himself.
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Anand Thakur
Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.
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Anand Thakur
We don’t have to be brilliant.
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Brilliant One Liner
Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.
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Anand Thakur
Suppose we have a motor and our transmission doesn’t work or our clutch or whatever. Then our body, our motor, just takes us down the road. Or our brakes don’t work! We must have a coordination system.
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Machine Ourselves Road System Work
We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe.
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Anand Thakur
Our relations with others are not external. They enter into our very identity. And that’s why people struggle with them so.
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Anand Thakur
Spiritual formation in Christ moves us toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his.
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Change Himself Ideas Image Move Spirituality
The will is transformed by experience, not information.
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Anand Thakur
The key, then, to loving God is to see Jesus, to hold him before the mind with as much fullness and clarity as possible. It is to adore him.
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Anand Thakur
Ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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Anand Thakur
Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.
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Earn Effort Grace
The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.
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As we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear.
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A leader enables people to love and honor the role they play in the organization or group they are part of.
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Anand Thakur
The kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.
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Anand Thakur
We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one who believes. You can almost be as stupid as a cabbage as long as you doubt.
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Believe Culture Doubt Ideas Live Yourself
Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ.
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Church Decision Fact God Problem

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